Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had asked the driver to wait two minutes whilst he saw whether or not I was through customs and in the foyer . |
| 32 | Their main call was for a return to the 1977 White Paper , namely : ‘ a specific commitment on the part of central and local government to the regeneration of the inner areas … both central and local government will be judged by their willingness to implement new priorities , to make funds available , to change policies and to adapt their organisations , ( DoE , 1977 , para. 25 ) . |
| 33 | Opening the case to confirm this suspicion is easy . |
| 34 | Dr James Tiedje and Dr Stephen Boyd at Michigan State University , are awaiting final approval of a grant to support further research of a startling and previously unknown anaerobic organism , which they found in sludge from a Michigan sewage treatment plant and in lake sediments . |
| 35 | As was the custom for landowners of the age , Walter the Steward gave money to support religious orders and to establish places of worship . |
| 36 | They spend hours and hours coaxing the computer to perform extravagant tasks . |
| 37 | S 1(1) provides that ‘ a person is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he causes a computer to perform any function to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ; ( b ) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised ; and ( c ) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case ’ . |
| 38 | The relevant words are ‘ he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ’ . |
| 39 | Held , that , in the opinion of the court , in section 1(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1990 the words ‘ causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer , ’ in their plain and ordinary meaning , were not confined to the use of one computer with intent to secure access into another computer ; so that section 1(1) was contravened where a person caused a computer to perform a function with intent to secure unauthorised access to any program or data held in the same computer ( post , pp. 437A–B , C–D , 438A , E–F ) . |
| 40 | It seems to me to be straining language to say that only one computer is necessary when one looks to see the actual wording of the subsection : ‘ Causing a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer . ’ ’ |
| 41 | ‘ A person is guilty of an offence if — ( a ) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer ; ( b ) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised ; and ( c ) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case . |
| 42 | ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly . |
| 43 | It seems to me to be straining language to say that only one computer is necessary when one looks to see the actual wording of the subsection ; ‘ causing a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer . ’ |
| 44 | They are , ‘ he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer . ’ |
| 45 | This is not surprising , because although capitalists and socialists are usually reluctant to spell out their plans for global domination , Green politics are largely based on a straightforward conception of planet earth and what needs to de done at the global level to sustain human life on it . |
| 46 | Appealing to employers to make special provision to enable older people to continue or , indeed , return to employment , the Ministry offered the help of its industrial rehabilitation units in cases where lack of confidence and low morale were obstacles to the re-employment of older people . |
| 47 | I work in a small shire force with a special responsibility to preserve public order on Friday and Saturday nights . |
| 48 | Although there is little criticism of the foundation 's decision to support such research , other medical charities argue that its explicit exclusion of research on animals may encourage other smaller research-funding bodies to take a similar stand , a move that could make life increasingly difficult for medical researchers . |
| 49 | Dr Owen 's decision to support tactical voting for some Liberal Democrat candidates will surprise senior Conservatives , who had hoped for a simple message of support for Mr Major . |
| 50 | ‘ But bad luck to kill white horse . |
| 51 | A similar willingness to perform radical treatment for breast cancer in the absence of evidence from randomised trials led to the misguided mutilation of thousands of women by radical mastectomy . |
| 52 | Jones is expressing three central and fundamentally related features of Idealist ethics : the idea of service ; the acceptance of one 's position in society and a willingness to perform allotted tasks to the best of one 's ability ; and the belief that morality can not be imposed by external forces , but that it must come from within the individual personality . |
| 53 | We recommend our insurance as providing adequate cover for normal requirements , but it is your responsibility to arrange additional cover exceeding the maximum amounts payable under our policy , or providing cover for addition areas of liability if require . |
| 54 | This involves a willingness to acknowledge that co-operation can be difficult and that mistakes will occur , and a commitment to making the solving of problems a priority , rather than allowing them to fester . |
| 55 | But the Cold War was fundamentally one of history 's wars of religion , and there were those who realized that the struggle to preserve American Ideals from the ideas of Marx and Lenin had to be conducted on a religious or moral plane . |
| 56 | This is because the central disciplines over a new State derive from the world system of competitive and unequal States and the continuing struggle to preserve national independence . |
| 57 | Of course to see these studies as specialist , in a working and practical sense , is quite reasonable . |
| 58 | FRANCE 'S role as the colonial bogeyman of the South Pacific looks set to end with its decision to suspend nuclear testing , writes Paul Chapman in Wellington . |
| 59 | After the decision to suspend further negotiations on the return of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide [ see p. 38716 ] , the Haitian Senate voted on Feb. 13 to resume talks under the auspices of the Organization of American States ( OAS ) . |
| 60 | The following version is useful to give children the opportunity to channel excess energy — everybody is in action for the whole time it is being played . |